King James Version
2 Kings 15:4 in the King James Version says “Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.”
2 Kings 15:4 · KJV
Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
“the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“and burnt incense”
H6999to smoke, i.e., turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
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